Thoughtless Delineation
By Shane Bouel. Writer and adoptee exposing the realities of forced adoption, identity erasure, and institutional harm. His work challenges dominant narratives and centres truth, justice, and lived experience.
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The Room Where SB381 Died
On the morning of 13 August 2026, the California Assembly Appropriations Committee worked through its suspense file at the pace committees always do when the point is to be finished quickly. No testimony. No debate. No recorded vote. Somewh...
The $3,000 Seat: How America’s Adoption Lobby Sells Access at Every Price Point
A $3,000 sponsorship tier at America’s top adoption advocacy conference maps onto venture capital, a Catholic seminary, a widow-fundraising ministry, and the federal official who used to run the whole operation.
There is a particular...
Six Sponsors, One Blueprint: The Adoption Industry as America’s Original Neoliberal Export
A routine sponsor thank-you post led to a federal grant-lobby loop, a sealed-records custodian, and the same family-values fusion that later gave the world its own versions of institutional family separation.
Tags: adoption industry, Archi...
How Forced Adoption Became the Blueprint for Neoliberal Australia: The Ledger the State Never Closed!
Forced adoption didn’t end when the Apology was read. It graduated, from moral discipline into a $4.5 billion market that still runs on the same clock.
There is a particular kind of silence that lives in a filing cabinet. Not the silenc...
IDENTITY IS A VERB:
A Multidimensional Framework for Understanding Fracture and Reconstruction
What does it mean to be the same person over time? For decades, mainstream psychology has encouraged us to view identity as a private possession—a collection of s...
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Writer and adoptee exposing the realities of forced adoption, identity erasure, and institutional harm. His work challenges dominant narratives and centres truth, justice, and lived experience.
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